301, Lot: 41. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ELIS, Olympia. 93rd Olympiad. 408 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 10.60 g, 2h). Eagle’s head left; [poplar leaf below] / Winged thunderbolt, with wings turned inwards; in right field, uncertain animal (hound?) standing left; all within olive wreath. Seltman,
Temple – (but obv. die BT); BCD Olympia – (but cf. 77-8 for same obv. die); BCD Peloponnesos –; HGC 5, –. Fine, toned, heavy scratches on obverse.
The animal on the reverse is not recorded by Seltman, and there are no similar reverses in the BCD sales.